(TV) RE: Tom's guitars/Snippet From Long Interviews

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

>Does anyone else here play a Jaguar?  I have a white one, CIJ 1997 a la
>"The Millers Tale" picies. ..... Anyone know someone who set up Tom's
>Jaguar or any of his guitars? Why does he play a Strat these days? Are his
>hands not able/strong enough to tame the Jaguar? Is there any info on his
>choice of guitars - for instance, the clear one on the Foxhole cover - what
>is that? Always wondered if it was a real Fender.

I remember reading (from Ms Secret X?) that Verlaine 'collects' guitars
(fixes them up and then resells them).  Wasn't the guitar sold on e-bay
several years ago one of his Jaguars?

Don't believe he has the 'clear'-one anymore.  
>From an old 1978 TV interview done by Stephen Demorest (Sounds Magazine),
which I received recently:

"There's a feeling that goes on between you and your tools, which I never
took seriously until I had all seven of my guitars stolen, and had to get
used to new ones.  They weren't real expensive, but they were set up so I
could play them in a certain way.  At least I got to do one record with
them. Most necks are different sizes.  Your hand takes all that for granted,
but on a strange guitar you get millions of bad chords.  Your hand keeps
playing the old neck.  Some kid showed me harmonics in the 12th grade, and I
thought it was the greatest---they're all over our first record.  Lots of
great jazz guitarists can apparently do it really fast, but I love the
sound---like little bells." 

"..... Another reason we have a different sound quality from the standard
Les Paul beefed-up guitars plugged into Marshall amplifiers is we don't use
Gibson guitars---it's all fenders and Daneltros.  I think it gives you more
bite and sparkle.  I ended up using the same old Jazzmaster for almost the
entire record [Adventure] because I couldn't find another one that would
stay in tune. Jazzmasters are traditionally the guitar nobody would
play---the pickups don't respond to a string like the Les Paul--but to me it
sounds great."

"... I also think we use notes that other rock and rollers don't use in
chords.  Like 'Ain't That Nothin'' is just a drone G, but over the top are
all sorts of 6ths and 7ths traveling by."

In this same interview and a second one from the New Musical Express, TV
discusses:  records from his childhood collection (e.g., Mart Manning and
His Orchestra); playing full back in High School[!!]; strong dislike for
music of Elvis Costello and Aerosmith; the movie "Beyond and Back"; artists
Paul Klee, Charles Burchfield, and Albert Ryder's landscapes; Dennis
Saurat's book "Death and the Dreamer" and James Ullman's "The Sands of
Karakaroum"; 1958 comedy 'It's Sick' by the Sick-nicks, and W.C. Fields; the
painting,'Ophelia', by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; guitarists Chris Spedding,
Scotty Moore, Link Wray, Richard Thompson, Roy Buchann, and Nick Lowe, (and
The Byrds' guitar sound); and finally, cheesy Farfisa organs.  

Will post if interest.  Leo      

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